Is there an Online Chess for Terminal on Linux ? (based on ncurses, noble C lang.)
Hello,
There are many online chess games, such as pychess, ... for multiplayer online gaming. The surprise is that there aren't many under the standard terminal, which are well coded and coded in C. Any inputs would be greatly helpful. thank you and wishing you a good day. Pat |
Pat, I am a constant chess playing but I have not found yet the one you are seeking.
I wish you can write one :) I am a member of chess tempo. Likewise wishing you the best. malek |
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I found this chess game if you have some time and ability to mess around with the code, or create new code. Or how about this one? Neither of them are web based (not sure about multiplayer) but should allow you to play in a terminal. :) Quote:
Regards... |
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The thing that I haven't much idea who you would want one... just give me a wish. Which protocol the chess server uses? I could maybe have a quick look. |
basically you need a chess engine, and an ncurses frontend.
engines: e.g. gnuchess can be played from the terminal. frontend: https://benkibbey.wordpress.com/cboard/ the only ncurses i can find. |
I googled this and found there's a free internet chess server. There doesn't seem to be source code available though, sadly.
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As for me I think I belong to the # 3) above. But you should find out first the prospective audience if they are worth your effort and time. Thanks ahead for your concern. m.m. |
If you don't actually care if it's ncurses, but just want it to be visual but not reliant on an X session, then I suggest you look at Emacs chess.
You can get a description of it here: https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-chess, but the summary is that it's an emacs mode for chess playing; if X is available, it provide a GUI but if not, then it provides a text-based board that looks exactly like this: Code:
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ You can install this from within Emacs (m-x packages-list-packages); it's called Chess or chess-mode. |
Have you seen this site?
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the site http://www.tim-mann.org/ics.html is kinda not suckless spirit. |
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